Kim Kardashian Finally Speaks Out About Her Butt Cover

It seems everyone has an opinion about Kim's now infamous Paper magazine cover (otherwise known as "the butt that broke the Internet.")

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Chelsea Handler, for one, just won't let go. First she taunted Kim by Tweeting her own booty snap, and yesterday, she Tweeted this, presumably to poke fun of Kim some more. FYI, a 'map o' Tassie' is body hair of the bikini-line variety.

Kim has kept it klassy by not feeding into the hate frenzy and staying mum about her spread over this past weekend, but while on the Austrailian show The Project on Tuesday, Kim finally piped up. She said, "I was so honored and excited to work with [photographer Jean-Paul Goude] because he is a legend. And for me that was something I wanted to do to make myself feel confident. As a role model I'm not saying anyone else should do that, but for me it was an art project and it taught me to do what you want to do. I'm never one to preach, but I felt really positive and really good about myself. I love the photos, I did it for me, I hope other people like them." Well that's certainly one way to silence the trolls. You can't argue with wanting to feel good about yourself.

After she explained her rationale, the show's host, Rove McManus asked the question that's been on all of our minds since we first laid eyes on her greased-up bottom. "Can you actually balance a champagne glass on your derriere, or was it all Photoshopped?"

"My back hurt for about a week after that shoot...I used muscles..," she said, stammering.

"[Goude] has an art of posing you and it was definitely not comfortable," she added with a laugh. Without missing a beat, McManus produced a champagne glass and asked Kim if she could reenact her party trick, or teach him to do it. She chose to show McManus how it's done but after failing to get the glass to balance on his backside, she gave up, saying, "You don't have as big a butt as I do, so..."

Based on this scene, we can only deduce that Kim can't actually shoot champers out of her bum and that the stunt was indeed Photoshopped. Or, maybe she's just saving the party trick for the Kardashian New Year special. Only time will tell.